Tech leaders have warned about the potential dangers of the very AIs they're developing, while harping on about the need for regulation.
The sincerity of this cautionary mien has always been suspect, however, and now there's more evidence to suggest that OpenAI, a leader in the space, hasn't been practicing what its CEO Sam Altman has been publicly preaching.
Now, The Washington Post reports that members of OpenAI's safety team said they felt pressured to rush through testing "designed to prevent the technology from causing catastrophic harm" of its GPT-4 Omni large language model, which now powers ChatGPT — all so the company could push out its product by its May launch date. In sum, they say, OpenAI treated GPT-4o's safeness as a foregone conclusion.
By Frank Landymore.
Full story at Yahoo News.

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